Tropico is a construction and management simulation video game developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers. The games see the player taking the role of "El Presidente", the ruler of a fictional island country in the Caribbean during the Cold War era from the 1950s onward. The game is tongue in cheek in its presentation of semi democratic banana republics, using a great deal of humor while still referencing such topics as totalitarianism, electoral fraud, and the interventions of powerful companies and the Cold War superpowers.